Imagery

Imagery is written throughout a lot of this book. A few quotes that used imagery are below:

1. "She was stretched on the her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun, and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her." (pg. 11)
2. "The cooling palma christi leaves that Janie had bound about her grandma's head with a white rag had wilted down and become part and parcel of the woman." (pg.12)
3. "Throught pollinated air she saw a glorious being coming up the road." (pg. 11)
4. "From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds, from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom." (pg. 10)
5. "Janie and Logan got married in Nanny's parlor of a Saturday evening with three cakes and big platters of fried rabbit and chicken." (pg. 21)
6. "It was a cityfied, stylish dressed man with his hat set at an angle that didn't belong in these parts. His coat was over his arm, but he didn't need it to represent his clothes. The shirt with the silk sleeveholders was dazzling enough for the world. (pg. 27)
7. "Joe noted the scant dozen of shame-faced houses scattered in the sand and palmetto roots and said, "God, they call this a town? Why, 'tain't nothing but a raw place in de woods." (pg. 34)
8. "His prosperous-looking belly that used to thrust out so pugnaciously and intimidate folks, sagged like a load suspended from his loins." (pg. 77)
9. "Then too she noticed how baggy Joe was getting all over. Like bags hanging from an ironing board. A little sack hung from the corners of his eyes and rested on his cheek-bones; a loose filled bag of feathers hung from his ears and rested on his neck beneath his chin." (pg. 81)
10. "He was lying on his side facing the door like he was expecting somebody or something. A sort of changing look on his face. Weak-looking but sharp-pointed about the eyes. Through the thin counterpane she could see what was left of his belly huddles before him on the bed like some helpless thing seeking shelter." (pg. 85)

Picture Source:

Web. 6 May 2010. <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Pear-tree,katori-city,japan.JPG>.